The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκαταλλάσσω“to exchange, reconcile”
- English todaycatallactics
Literally, “science of exhanges”, from Ancient Greek καταλλάσσω (katallássō, “to exchange, reconcile”). Probably coined by British economist Richard Whately in 1831.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκαταλλάσσω all →
catallaxy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.